KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday expressed hope that the problems faced by working women would be resolved and they would be protected against harassments through establishment of Ombudsman. Talking to the newly-appointed provincial ombudsman for protection of women against harassment at work place, Pir Ali Shah who called on him […]
ISLAMABAD: Representatives of five cellular companies on Thursday appeared before a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigation committee and recorded their statements in a Rs 47 billion tax evasion scam. The NAB investigation committee comprised DG Operations, Director Special Operations and a senior Banking officer of NAB, an official said. The NAB official said the investigation […]
By: Sehrish Ali ISLAMABAD: Horeen Amjad is a relatively young artist, well on her way to making a name for herself and her recent exhibition at the Pakistan National Council of Arts is a testimony to that. Her displayed work was ceramic, clay-crafted and molded to perfection. It depicted some well-known and some unfamiliar yet […]
KARACHI: For the students of the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), their graduation ceremony was far from the conventional fare. Held at the Arts Council on Wednesday evening, around 30 graduates of the academy’s fourth and fifth batches were brought together to highlight the expertise they had acquired over three years in different genres […]
KARACHI: Government has appointed Tariq Malik as Chairman NADRA. He is promoted to the position as chairman while serving the organisation as Deputy Chairman. He assumed the charge of Chairman NADRA on Thursday. Malik brings 20 years of strategic management experience in implementing high profile citizen centric technology solutions in Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria, Bangladesh, United […]
KARACHI: Newly posted Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh, Fayyaz Leghari on Thursday called on Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Qaim Ali Shah at the CM House. According to an official handout the chief minister while talking to IGP said that the maintenance of law and order is priority of the government and full efforts […]
Karachi: Ombudsman Sindh Asad Ashraf Malik has assured the newly-appointed Ombudsman for protection of women against harassment at workplace, Syed Pir Ali Shah, of the setting up of Women Complaint Secretariat. He also promised informal staff training by experienced functionaries. This was discussed when Shah called on the ombudsman Sindh at his office on Thursday. […]
KARACHI: A two-day literary conference titled “the importance of Sufi literature in present day” ended at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (Fuuast) on Thursday. The conference was presided by Registrar Prof Dr Qamar-ul-Haq. Dr Nawaz Ali Shauq, Dr Abdur Razzaq Sabir, Dr Seemi Nagmana, Dr Suleman D Muhammad, Dr Ali Akbar […]
By: Shoaib A Raja ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday signed the Contempt of Court Bill 2012, which was passed by the Senate on Wednesday and National Assembly on Monday The government had first presented this bill in the National Assembly along with two more amendments on Monday. After being passed by the lower […]
Karachi: A petition has been filed in Sindh High Court on Thursday against ban on telecasting of interviews of Karachi City Alliance and People Amn Committee’s Chairman Uzair Jan Baloch and other leaders at electronic media. Iqbal Kazmi, a member of Karachi City Alliance, submitted in the petition that KAC Chairman represent people of Lyari […]
KARACHI: The Geo Television Network has proudly announced GEO Asool – (geo.tv/asool) – a social contract with the viewers who are the ultimate employers. It is widely believed that freedom is not a licence. The social contract between media and its consumers, however, has been unwritten … until now. The Geo network believes that in […]
KARACHI: It was more than a professional challenge for students and faculty of the National Academy of Performing Arts’ Repertory Theatre to pull off a Vijay Tendulkar play, and as socially challenging a project as Kamala at that. But, let’s establish at the outset, they did a creditable job at the Arts Council theatre on […]
SHIKARPUR: A woman and a young man were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in the village of Makkan Jalbani on Thursday.Jumo Jalbani, with the help of his friends, killed his sister-in-law Ms Faiza and his relative Tajal Jalbani and fled. No FIR was registered till filing of this report. In another incident, an old […]
RAWALPINDI: An ex-army man shot his wife dead on Thursday evening on some disputes, police said. Mohammad Yousuf developed differences with his wife over some domestic disputes. After failing to settle disputes with her husband, she knocked the doors of local court for Khullah. On Thursday evening, as the couple left the Cantonment Board’s arbitrator’s […]
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